Advocacy

The Tennessee Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance is committed in educating health, physical education, recreation, and dance personnel from around the state as to the need for legislation to maintain and/or update current standards.

Advocacy Links and Articles

• The Lowdown on Sugar (The Alliance for a Healthier Generation)
  
• SHAPE America Legislative Action Center
• Cool P.E. and Confronting Negative Stereotypes
• Physical Education is Critical to a Complete Education
• The Difference Between Physical Education and Physical Activity

Current State Legislation

Class Size Law TCA 49-1-104

(a) It is the intent of the general assembly that every LEA move expeditiously and promptly towards the goals established in this section, and to the end, neither the commissioner nor the state board of education shall grant waivers from the maximum class sizes established in this section.  Every public school system shall have a policy that pupil-teacher ratios should not exceed the averages prescribed in this section.  In no school building shall the average size of any grade level unit prescribed in this section exceed the state average, though any individual class within that unit may exceed the average; provided, that no class shall exceed the prescribed maximum size.

Class Size Mandates by Grade Level

• K-3:  class size may average 20 students with a maximum of 25 students
• 4-6:  class size may average 25 students with a maximum of 30 students
• 7-12:  class size may average 30 students with a maximum of 35 students

 

TAHPERD TALKS

Program Purpose:  TAHPERD TALKS is designed to bring health, wellness, physical education, sport management and/or exercise science professionals together to meet, eat, and discuss any current issue.  Click here to learn more about this program.